This week's hero at my gaff. A quite brilliant self-effacing, honest and intelligent set of memoirs that set out better than anything else I've read what Punk must have really been like for the main players.
' The whole expression Punk Royalty should not exist. There's no such thing. We were a bunch of scruffy little scallywags, running around with nothing to do,. No money. No prospects in terms of work. Most of the time on buses going here or there. To go and visit someone took three or four hours. We didn't know if they were in or not. No-one had telephones. Our days were spent going backwards and forwards and waiting at bus stops for hours on end and it was an amazingly slow paced life and I'm amazed when I look back what a massive effect that small moment had and what we achieved with such lack of funds and lack of facilities.
I think we shook up the English Establishment. It was a very patriarchal society. You never questioned a doctor, a dentist, a judge, your father, your uncle. You never questioned a male.'
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